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Saint-Pierre was born on February 18, 1658 at the château of Saint-Pierre-Église near Cherbourg, where his father, the Marquis de Saint-Pierre, was grand bailli of Cotentin. He was the youngest of five children.
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Discours Sur La Polysynodie: Où L'on Démontre Que La Polysynodie, Ou Pluralité Des Conseils, Est La Forme De Ministère La Plus Avantageuse Pour Un Roi, Et Pour Son Royaume
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Saint-Pierre was born on February 18, 1658 at the château of Saint-Pierre-Église near Cherbourg, where his father, the Marquis de Saint-Pierre, was grand bailli of Cotentin. He was the youngest of five children.
He was educated by the Jesuits. Then tor 5 years he followed every course available in the physical sciences, drifting further and further away from preoccupations with his ecclesiastical state as well as from what remained of his faith.
In 1680 Charles Irénée Castel, who is known as the Abbé Saint-Pierre, left his native Normandy and boyhood dreams of a monastic vocation for the ebullient intellectual atmosphere of Parisian university studies.
After 1685 he experienced a brief return to the concerns of ethics and moral theology before abandoning the divine again for what would be the area of his real intellectual vocation-political theory.
Henceforth his religion and his "consecration" to Holy Orders provided him with a comfortable living in sinecures which left him free to speculate on the art of government.
In 1712 Saint-Pierre composed his first important treatise, the Project for an Everlasting Peace in Europe, a text he would refine for years to come.
He envisioned a confederation of European sovereigns who would renounce the use of arms and submit their differences to a council of arbitration.
He was in fact simply modernizing a 1624 treatise of Henry IV's minister the Duc de Sully.
The French Academy, to which he had been elected in 1694, was scandalized, and when Saint-Pierre refused to recant, he was summarily dismissed.
His political influence was growing, however; the previous year he had issued Mémoire sur la taille tarifiée, suggesting tax reforms which amounted to the first version of proportional, declared revenue taxation. Historians consider this his most important contribution to governmental affairs, since some of its provisions actually found limited application after 1832.
In the ensuing years Saint-Pierre became a habitué of the salon of Madame de Tencin and a regular contributor to meetings of the Club de l'Entresol; it was here that the Baron de Montesquieu, who called Saint-Pierre his master, met him.
The Abbé was very likely responsible for this progressive group's dissolution, however, when in 1731 A. H. de Fleury suggested that he and others like him should refrain from discussing politics.
In the last years of his life Saint-Pierre continued to write assiduously on governmental practice and management while pursuing his Annales politiques, a comprehensive, chronological treatment of the affairs of France eventually covering the years from 1658 to 1739; critics have compared this last work favorably to the Siècle de Louis XIV of Voltaire.
Curiously, Voltaire and most of the later philosophes, including Jean Jacques Rousseau, disdained the Abbé, readily placing him with cranks and inventors and remembering his chimerical Trémoussoir (a therapeutic chair which jolted its user like a carriage) better than his insightful projects for public assistance to orphans and the aged and infirm, the maintenance of highways in winter (complete with statistical evidence of its economic advantage), and Parisian postal reform.
But Saint-Pierre lacked the doctrinaire assurance of the next generation; avoiding grandiose plans for human betterment, he continued to the end refining his practical suggestions, a modest reformer who died in 1743, before the age of prerevolutionary visions.
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The basic political principle of Saint-Pierre's work was his refusal to accept as either inevitable or rational the divine right of kings. His treatise La Polysynodie (1718) represented, at the height of the regent's liberalization policies, an outright attack on individual sovereignty, suggesting rule by multiple councils and offering many unfavorable comparisons drawn from the recently ended rule of Louis XIV.
Saint-Pierre's works are centered on an acute and visionary criticism of politics, law and social institutions. He had a great influence on Rousseau, who left elaborate examinations of some of them, and was a forerunner of Kant's 1795 essay on perpetual peace. He can be seen as an early proponent of the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Saint-Pierre was one of the first to mention the possibility of a European union made by independent and autonomous states. His work on a European community directly inspired the idea of an international order based on the principle of collective self-defense, and was important to the creation of the Concert of Europe, and later the League of Nations, whose successor is the United Nations Organisation.
Ideas contributed by Saint-Pierre include: an equitable tax system, including a graduated income tax, free public education, for women as well as men, state improvement of transportation to further commerce, an international court and league of states (Projet de paix perpétuelle 1713), a constitutional monarchy, aided by a system of councils and an academy of experts (Discours sur la polysynodie 1718).
He was elected as a member to the Académie française in 1695.